Mesas and Buttes

Historical marker location:

15819 Funnel Road, Camp Douglas, Wisconsin

( Marker can be reached from Funnel Road north of U.S. 12, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1963

Wisconsin is known as the "Badger State" because of the lead miners who first settled there in the 1820s and 1830s. These miners often lived in tunnels burrowed into hillsides, much like badgers.